I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.

We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space that folds and swallows--a darkness that would devour anyone not as strong as we. We are oddities, sideshows, talk show subjects. We capture everyone's imagination.

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

Writing is a deep-sea dive. You need hours just to get into it: down, down, down. If you're called back to the surface every couple of minutes by an email, you can't ever get back down. I have a great friend who became a Twitterer and he says he hasn't written anything for a year.

His lies were so exquisite I almost wept.

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.